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linked from the index page.
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*** The Bugzilla 2.22 Release Notes ***
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Table of Contents
*****************
- Introduction
- Important Updates In This Point Release
- Minimum Requirements
* Perl
* For MySQL Users
* For PostgreSQL Users
* Required Perl Modules
* Optional Perl Modules
- What's New?
* Complete PostgreSQL Support
* Parameters In Sections
* One Codebase, Multiple Databases
* UTF-8 for New Installations
* Admins Can Impersonate Users
* Bug Import and Moving Improvements
* Adding Individual Bugs to Saved Searches
* Attach URLs
* Optional "Strict Isolation" for Groups
* "editcomponents" Change
* "shutdownhtml" Change
* Miscellaneous Improvements
* All Changes
- Deprecated Features
- Outstanding Issues (<======================== IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ)
- How to Upgrade From An Older Bugzilla
* Steps for Upgrading
- Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
* CGI.pl is Gone
* Other Changes
- Security Fixes In 2.22 Releases
- Release Notes for Previous Versions
Introduction
************
Bugzilla 2.22 is one of our most polished releases. We did a lot of
small cleanups to make Bugzilla easier to use and more useful in
many, many small ways, in addition to adding some major new features.
This document contains the release notes for Bugzilla 2.22.
In this document, recently added, changed, and removed features
of Bugzilla are described. If you are upgrading from an older version,
you will definitely want to read these release notes in detail, so that
you have an idea of what has changed.
If you are upgrading from a version before 2.20, also read the 2.20
release notes (lower in this file) and any previous release notes.
If you are installing a new Bugzilla, you will still want to look over
the release notes to see if there is any particularly important
information that affects your installation.
If you would like to contribute code to Bugzilla, read our
Contributor's Guide at:
http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/contributor.html
Important Updates In This Point Release
***************************************
This section describes bugs fixed in releases after the original 2.22
release.
Version 2.22.2
--------------
+ Make Bugzilla compatible with Template Toolkit 2.15 (bug 357374)
+ Make Bugzilla compatible with versions of MySQL higher than 5.0.25
(bug 321645)
+ Sanity Check can now only be run by people with the "admin" privilege.
(bug 91761)
Version 2.22.1
--------------
+ When sending mail, Bugzilla could throw the error "Insecure dependency in
exec while running with -T switch" (bug 340538).
+ Using the public webdot server (for dependency graphs) should work
again (bug 351243).
+ The "I'm added to or removed from this capacity" email preference
wasn't working for new bugs (bug 349852).
+ The original release of 2.22 incorrectly said it required Template-Toolkit
version 2.08. In actual fact, Bugzilla requires version 2.10 (bug 351478).
+ votes.cgi would crash if your bug was the one confirming a bug (bug 351300).
+ checksetup.pl now correctly reports if your Template::Plugin::GD module
is missing. If missing, it could lead to charts and graphs not working
(bug 345389).
+ The "Keyword" field on buglist.cgi was not sorted alphabetically, so
it wasn't very useful for sorting (bug 342828).
+ Sendmail will no longer complain about there being a newline in the
email address, when Bugzilla sends mail (bug 331365).
+ contrib/bzdbcopy.pl would try to insert an invalid value into the
database, unnecessarily (bug 335572).
+ Deleting a bug now correctly deletes its attachments from the database
(bug 339667).
Minimum Requirements
********************
Perl
----
Perl v5.6.1 (Non-Windows platforms)
ActiveState Perl v5.8.1 (Windows only)
Note that this is the last release of Bugzilla to support perl 5.6.x--
future versions will require perl 5.8.
For MySQL Users
---------------
MySQL v4.0.14 (changed from 2.20)
perl module: DBD::mysql v2.9003 (changed from 2.18)
For PostgreSQL Users
--------------------
PostgreSQL 7.3.x
perl module: DBD::Pg 1.31 (1.41 required for PostgreSQL 8+)
WARNING: DBD::Pg 1.43 has a bug which causes checksetup.pl to fail
and corrupt the database. If you are using DBD::Pg 1.43, either downgrade
to 1.41 or upgrade to 1.45 (1.42 and 1.44 seem broken somehow too).
Note that this is the last release of Bugzilla to support PostgreSQL 7.x.
Future versions will require PostgreSQL 8.0 and DBD::Pg 1.45.
Required Perl Modules
---------------------
AppConfig v1.52
CGI v2.93
Data::Dumper (any)
Date::Format v2.21
DBI v1.38
File::Spec v0.84
File::Temp (any)
Template Toolkit v2.10 (changed from 2.20)
Text::Wrap v2001.0131
Mail::Mailer v1.67 (changed from 2.20)
MIME::Base64 v3.01 (new in 2.22)
MIME::Parser v5.406 (new in 2.22)
Storable (any)
Note: The SMTP support in Mail::Mailer 1.73 (the most recent version)
is broken. The last known working version is 1.67.
Optional Perl Modules
---------------------
Chart::Base v1.0
GD v1.20
GD::Graph (any)
GD::Text::Align (any)
Net::LDAP (any)
PatchReader v0.9.4
XML::Twig (any) (new in 2.22)
Image::Magick (new in 2.22)
What's New?
***********
Complete PostgreSQL Support
---------------------------
Bugzilla 2.20 contained experimental support for PostgreSQL.
In Bugzilla 2.22, PostgreSQL support is fully complete and stable. Using
PostgreSQL with Bugzilla should be as stable as using MySQL, and if
you experience any problems they will be taken as seriously as if you
were running MySQL.
There are no known remaining major problems with Bugzilla on PostgreSQL.
All features of Bugzilla have been tested and work.
Parameters In Sections
----------------------
Long-time users of Bugzilla know that over time the parameter list has
grown quite large. It has now been split into sections to make it easier
to use.
One Codebase, Multiple Databases
--------------------------------
There is now limited support for having multiple projects use the
same Bugzilla codebase, but all have separate databases.
The different projects can have their own templates and their own
bug database, but all use the same set of Bugzilla code in the same
directory.
To enable this, set an environment variable called PROJECT when
calling the Bugzilla CGIs. Then for each project, you can have
a localconfig.PROJECT (where "PROJECT" is the value of the PROJECT
environment variable) file for the database parameters, and a
template/en/PROJECT directory (where "PROJECT" is the value of the
PROJECT environment variable)
This feature isn't documented yet, but we hope to have documentation for
it soon.
UTF-8 For New Installations
---------------------------
If this is the first time you're installing Bugzilla, it will now use
UTF-8 encoding for all pages, automatically. It will also send emails
in UTF-8. This eliminates most of the internationalization problems
users have experienced, as one Bugzilla page may now contain any number
of languages simultaneously.
If you are upgrading and you want to use UTF-8, just turn on the "utf8"
Parameter. However, realize that if you have non-UTF-8 data in your
Bugzilla, it will appear unreadable. (If you just have ASCII in your
database, you're safe to turn on the "utf8" parameter, definitely.)
Admins Can Impersonate Users
----------------------------
User impersonation (think of the su/sudo command on Unix) allows you
to view pages and perform actions as if you are logged in as someone else,
without having to know their password.
A user in the new "bz_sudoers" group has the option of "becoming"
any user in Bugzilla. Once they "become" that user, they *are* that user
for the rest of the session, until they decide to switch back to being
themselves.
However, they cannot "become" any user in the "bz_sudo_protect" group.
This group includes everybody in the "admin" and "bz_sudoers" groups by
default.
Any time a user is impersonated, they will get an email notifying them
who has impersonated them.
Bug Import and Moving Improvements
----------------------------------
The XML Import script, importxml.pl, has been completely re-written.
It now:
* Correctly imports the "priority" field
* Understands when the "Reporter" or "CC List" security boxes
are unchecked on the bug.
* Places bugs in the appropriate groups
* Allows attachments to be imported
* Is much more forgiving about small problems in the XML
Adding Individual Bugs to Saved Searches (Tagging)
--------------------------------------------------
Users now have the option of adding an individual bug to any
particular Saved Search. Individual users that disagree with the site
default can add or remove this feature (which appears as an entry box
visible in the footer) by changing the General Preferences setting
called "Enable tags for bugs".
Attach URLs
-----------
Instead of attaching a file, you can now also attach a URL to a bug.
This will show up just like an attachment on show_bug.cgi, but when
you click on it, it will take you to the URL.
To enable this, turn on the "allow_attach_url" parameter.
Optional "Strict Isolation" for Groups
--------------------------------------
If you turn on the "strict_isolation" parameter in Bugzilla, you
will *not* be able to add any user to the CC field (or set them
as an Assignee or QA Contact) unless that user could normally see
the bug. That is, you will no longer be able to "accidentally"
(or intentionally) give somebody access to a bug that they
otherwise couldn't see.
"editcomponents" Change
-----------------------
Previously, all users who had "editcomponents" could see every Product,
using the editcomponents.cgi script. Now, users with "editcomponents"
can only see Products that they normally have access to.
This restriction also affects editversions.cgi, editmilestones.cgi and
editproducts.cgi.
"shutdownhtml" Change
---------------------
All of Bugzilla is now affected by the "shutdownhtml" parameter,
including command-line scripts. checksetup.pl is exempt. Many scripts
(such as collectstats.pl and whine.pl) will just exit silently when
"shutdownhtml" is turned on.
Miscellaneous Improvements
--------------------------
- Added a frequently-requested user preference for whether or not to go
to the next bug in your list after submitting changes to a bug.
- The ability to do relative date searches (like "1d" for "1 day" or "1w"
for "1 week") by hour now, in addition to days and other units of time.
- "Alias" added to the New Bug form, for users with editbugs.
- Users can now actually see the descriptions of flags that you enter
in editflagtypes.cgi. The description will appear as a tooltip
when a user places their mouse over the flag name on show_bug.cgi.
- Bugzilla will optionally convert BMP attachments into PNGs for you.
See the "convert_uncompressed_images" in the "Attachments" section
of the Parameters.
- You can now edit the Status Whiteboard when you are changing multiple
bugs at once.
- The way that groups work in the database has changed, and large-scale
Bugzilla use with many concurrent users should be much faster, as a
result. (Technical Details: The need for Bugzilla to "derive groups"
has gone away pretty much entirely.)
- Performance improvements on searching attachment information that's not
the actual content of the attachment (such as searching the Attachment
Description or the Attachment MIME Type)
- You can now specify multiple email addresses, comma-separated, when
setting the requestee of a flag, and it will set the flag once for each
of those email addresses
- "Bug Creation Time" is now searchable in the Boolean Charts.
- When you mark a comment on a bug as private, the background color
of the comment will change immediately. However, in order for
Bugzilla to register that the comment is now private, you still
have to "submit" the changes.
- Emails sent from Bugzilla now have "X-Bugzilla-Keywords" and
"X-Bugzilla-Severity" by default, containing the information
from the related Bugzilla fields.
- You can now change the assignee and QA contact on multiple bugs at
once even when those bugs are in different products.
- contrib/merge-users.pl allows you to merge two user accounts. This is
particulary useful when a user opened several accounts and only one should
be kept. It also lets you merge a deleted account with an existing one.
All Changes
-----------
If you'd like to see all the changes between Bugzilla 2.20 and Bugzilla
2.22, see:
http://tinyurl.com/9p2tm
Deprecated Features
*******************
- This is the last release of Bugzilla to support perl 5.6.x. All future
versions of Bugzilla will require at least perl 5.8.
This is the last release of Bugzilla to support PostgreSQL 7.x. Future
releases using PostgreSQL will require PostgreSQL 8.0 and DBD::Pg 1.45.
Outstanding Issues
******************
- bug 305836: PostgreSQL users: do not use DBD::Pg version 1.43 with
Bugzilla. It has a bug which can corrupt the database. Version 1.41
is fine. Version 1.45 or higher is fine too.
- (No Bug Number) VERY IMPORTANT: If you have customized the values in
your Status/Resolution field, you must edit checksetup.pl BEFORE YOU
RUN IT. Find the line that starts like this:
bug_status => ["UNCONFIRMED",
That's where you set the values for the Status field.
resolution => ["","FIXED",
And that's where you set values for the Resolution field.
Those are both near line 1826 in checksetup.pl.
If you forget to do this, you will have to manually edit the "bug_status"
and "resolution" tables in the database to contain the correct values.
- bug 276230: The support for restricting access to particular Categories of
New Charts is not complete. You should treat the 'chartgroup' Param as the
only access mechanism available. However, additionally, charts migrated from
Old Charts will be restricted to the groups that are marked MANDATORY for
the corresponding Product. There is currently no way to change this
restriction, and the groupings will not be updated if the group configuration
for the Product changes.
- bug 37765: If you use the "sendmail" support of Bugzilla,
and you use an MTA which is *not* Sendmail (such as Postfix, Exim, etc.)
make sure the "sendmailnow" parameter is ON or Bugzilla will not send
e-mail correctly.
- bug 69621: If you rename or remove a keyword that is in use on bugs, you will
need to rebuild the "keyword cache" by running sanitycheck.cgi and choosing
the option to rebuild the cache when it asks. Otherwise keywords may not show
up properly in search results.
- (No Bug Number) If you have a lot of non-ASCII data in your Bugzilla (for
example, if you use a translation of Bugzilla), don't enable the XS::Stash
option when you install the Template Toolkit, or your Bugzilla installation
may become slow. This problem is fixed in a not-yet-released version of the
Template Toolkit (after 2.14).
- Bug 99215: Flags are not protected by "mid-air collision" detection.
Nor are any attachment changes.
- Bug 89822: When changing multiple bugs at the same time, there is no
"mid-air collision" protection.
- bug 322955: The email interface (bug_mail.pl) in the contrib/ directory
has not been maintained (as it has no maintainer), and does not work
properly. We hope to have this fixed in our next major release of
Bugzilla; however, any help or contributions in this area are very
welcome.
How to Upgrade From An Older Bugzilla
*************************************
NOTE: Upgrading from a large installation (over 10,000 bugs) running 2.18
or before may take a significant amount of time. checksetup will
try to let you know how long it will take, but expect downtime
of an hour or more if you have many bugs, many attachments,
or many users.
Steps for Upgrading
-------------------
1) Read these entire Release Notes, particularly the "Outstanding Issues"
and "Security Fixes" sections.
2) View the Sanity Check (sanitycheck.cgi) page on your installation before
upgrading. Attempt to fix all warnings that the page produces before
you go any further, or you may experience problems during your upgrade.
3) Make a backup of the Bugzilla database before you upgrade, perhaps
by using mysqldump. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. If anything goes wrong
during the upgrade, your installation can be corrupted beyond
recovery. Having a backup keeps you safe.
Example:
mysqldump -u root -p bugs > bugs-db.sql
4) Replace the files in your installation with the new version of Bugzilla,
or you can try to use CVS to upgrade. The bugzilla.org website has
instructions on how to do the actual installation.
You can also use a brand-new Bugzilla directory, as long as you
copy over the old data/ directory and the "localconfig" file to the
new installation.
5) Run checksetup.pl after you install the new version.
7) View the Sanity Check page again after you run checksetup.pl.
8) It is recommended that, if possible, you fix any problems you find
immediately. Failure to do this may mean that Bugzilla will not work
correctly. Be aware that if the sanity check page contains more errors after
an upgrade, it doesn't necessarily mean there are more errors in your
database, as additional tests are added to the sanity check over time, and
it is possible that those errors weren't being checked for in the old
version.
9) This version of Bugzilla contains improvements to the email that
Bugzilla sends when a bug is changed. The template for that email
is contained in the "newchangedmail" parameter. If you would like
to take advantage of the email enhancements in this version of
Bugzilla, reset that parameter to its default. (You can customize
it after that again, if you want.)
Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
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CGI.pl is Gone
--------------
The CGI.pl file, which used to contain many global functions, and which
also contained initialization code for every CGI, is gone. The functions
have been moved to various places and sometimes renamed.
The initialization code that used to happen inside CGI.pl is now inside
of Bugzilla.pm. All CGIs must "use Bugzilla" in one way or another. (Some
CGIs "use Bugzilla" by doing "require globals.pl".)
Deriving Groups No Longer Happens
---------------------------------
Bugzilla no longer needs to "derive groups" in advance. That is, previously
Bugzilla used to flatten the group heirarchy into the user_group_map
table. (That is, show that a user was in every group they were in,
even if they were only in that group because they belonged to *another*
group.) Now the table only contains groups that the user is in directly,
and groups that they are in because of a regexp.
Instead, The Bugzilla::User->group function determines the groups a user
is in when called.
We did this because the group derivation was causing a lot of complexity
in the code, and also deriving the groups was a slow process that
frequently had to happen inside of a database lock while sending mail
or viewing a bug list.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304583 for details.
Other Changes
-------------
- The move.pl script's functionality has been merged into process_bug.cgi.
- $::template and $::vars are gone from globals.pl. Instead of $::template,
use Bugzilla->template. Every script creates the $vars variable by itself
instead of using a global $::vars variable.
- $::userid is gone. Instead use Bugzilla->user->id.
- QuickSearch is now in perl instead of in JavaScript. The code is in
Bugzilla/Search/QuickSearch.pm. This makes it much easier to customize,
and it also fixes some long-standing issues that QuickSearch had.
- Attachment data is now in the attach_data table. Other information
about attachments is still in the "attachments" table.
- Much like the 2.20 release, many functions have been removed from
globals.pl and CGI.pl. They were moved elsewhere and renamed.
Search RESOLVED bugs in bugzilla.mozilla.org for the old
version of the function name, and that will usually show you
the bug where we moved the function, allowing you to find out
what the new name and location is.
- This is the last release that contains the deprecated
SendSQL, SqlQuote, FetchSqlData, MoreSqlData, and FetchOneColumn
functions. Instead, you should use DBI functions. For a very brief
example, see:
http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/developer.html#sql-sendreceive
Security Fixes in 2.22 Releases
*******************************
A long-standing, well-known security issue is finally resolved in Bugzilla
2.22: Previously, the "Session ID" of each user could be easily guessed,
given enough time. This could have allowed an attacker to take over a
user's account, in certain circumstances. Now, the "Session ID" is totally
random, resolving this issue. See bug 119524 in bugzilla.mozilla.org for
details.
If you are very concerned about the security of your Bugzilla installation,
it would be a very good idea to run the following command on your
database immediately after upgrading:
TRUNCATE TABLE logincookies;
This is actually safe to do at any time--it just forces a logout of
every single user, even those with saved sessions. (It invalidates
every login cookie Bugzilla has ever given out.)
Version 2.22.2
--------------
A Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability is fixed in Bugzilla 2.22.2. You can
read the details of the fix at:
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.20.3/
Version 2.22.1
--------------
The Bugzilla team fixed two Information Leaks and three Cross-Site
Scripting vulnerabilities that existed in versions of Bugzilla
prior to 2.22.1. We strongly recommend that you update any 2.22
installation to 2.22.1, to be protected from these vulnerabilities.
In addition, we have made an enhancement to security in this version
of Bugzilla. In previous versions, it was possible for malicious
users to exploit administrators in certain ways. Although this has
never happened (to our knowledge) in the real world, we thought it
was important that we protect administrators from this sort of attack.
You can see details on all the vulnerabilities and enhancements at:
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.18.5/
Release Notes For Previous Versions
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*** The Bugzilla 2.20 Release Notes ***
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Table of Contents
*****************
- Introduction
- Important Updates in this Point Release
* Version 2.20.1
* Version 2.20.2
- Minimum Requirements
* Perl
* For MySQL Users
* For PostgreSQL Users
* Required Perl Modules
* Optional Perl Modules
- What's New?
* Experimental PostgreSQL Support
* New User-Interface Color/Style
* Higher-Level Categorization of Bugs (above "Product")
* Regular Reports by Email of Complex Queries ("Whining")
* "Environment Variable" Authentication Method
* User-List Drop-Down Menus
* Server-Side Comment Wrapping
* UI for Editing Priority, OS, Platform, and Severity
* Bugzilla Queries as RSS
* Choice of E-Mail Sending Methods
* "User Preferences"
* "Large Attachment" Storage
* "User Visibility" Controls
* Miscellaneous Improvements
* All Changes
- Deprecated Features
- Outstanding Issues (<======================== IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ)
- How to Upgrade From An Older Bugzilla
* Steps for Upgrading
- Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
* The New Database-Compatibility Layer
* If You Customize Your Database...
* Many Functions Renamed
* User Preferences
* Other Changes
- Security Fixes In 2.20 Releases
- Release Notes for Previous Versions
Introduction
************
This document contains the release notes for Bugzilla 2.20.
In this document, recently added, changed, and removed features
of Bugzilla are described. If you are upgrading from an older version,
you will definitely want to read these release notes in detail, so that
you have an idea of what has changed.
If you are upgrading from a version before 2.18, also read the 2.18 release
notes (lower in this file) and any previous release notes.
If you are installing a new Bugzilla, you will still want to look over
the release notes to see if there is any particularly important information
that affects your installation.
The 2.20 release has had about nine months of development since 2.18, but
they were nearly the most active nine months in Bugzilla's history. We hope
that users will appreciate our many external changes, and that Bugzilla
administators will find that our internal changes make their lives easier.
If you would like to contribute code to Bugzilla, read our
Contributor's Guide at:
http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/contributor.html
Important Updates In This Point Release
***************************************
Version 2.20.1
--------------
+ Many PostgreSQL fixes, including fixing whine.pl on Pg 8
(bug 301062) and fixing the --regenerate option of collectstats.pl
for all versions of Pg (bug 316971). However, users who want full
PostgreSQL support are encouraged to use the 2.22 series, as
certain PostgreSQL bugs were discovered that will not be fixed
in 2.20 (their fixes were too complex).
+ In Bugzilla 2.20, the "administrator" user created by checksetup.pl
would not ever be sent email, because their email preferences were
left blank. This has been fixed for 2.20.1. However, if you created
this administrative user with Bugzilla 2.20, make sure to go back
and enable their Email Preferences. (bug 317489)
+ The bzdbcopy.pl script mentioned in these release notes
has now actually been checked-in to the 2.20 branch, and so
it's included in this release. (bug 291776)
+ When there's only one Classification, you now won't be required
to pick a Classification on bug entry. (bug 311489)
+ You can no longer add dependencies on bugs you can't see.
(bug 141593)
+ The CC list is included in "New" bug emails, again. (bug 313661)
+ In the original 2.20, certain scripts were not correctly using
the "shadow database," if it was specified. This has been fixed
in 2.20.1. (bug 313695)
+ "Saved Searches" that were saved before Bugzilla 2.20, would throw
an error if they contained "Days Since Bug Changed." as part of their
criteria. This has been fixed in Bugzilla 2.20.1. (bug 302599)
+ You can now successfully delete a product even when Target Milestones
are turned off. (bug 317025)
+ checksetup.pl now correctly pre-compiles templates for languages other
than English. (bug 304417)
+ The "All Closed" chart that is created by default in New Charts
now actually represents all closed bugs, and not all bugs in the
product. (bug 300473)
+ CSV bug lists with more than 1000 dates now work properly. (bug 257813)
+ Various bugs with upgrading from previous versions of Bugzilla
have been fixed. (bug 307662, bug 311047, bug 310108)
+ Many, many other bug fixes. See http://www.bugzilla.org/status/changes.html
for details on what was fixed between 2.20 and 2.20.1.
Version 2.20.2
--------------
+ Adding a new attachment and taking the bug at the same time does not
create a referential integrity problem anymore if the bug was marked as
a duplicate (bug 332705).
+ Some additional admin links have been added to the sidebar (bug 282613).
+ A new test has been added to our test suite, named 012throwables.t.
It will now make sure that all tags used in ThrowUserError() and
ThrowCodeError() are defined, and that there are no unused tags (bug 312042).
+ whine.pl now works correctly on MySQL 4.0. MySQL 4.1 is not affected
(bug 327348).
+ contrib/merge-users.pl allows you to merge two user accounts. This is
especially useful when a user opened several accounts and only one
should be kept (bug 188264).
+ The login form on index.cgi again works correctly on a fresh installation
(bug 328108).
+ Email preferences are now set correctly when creating a new user account
using the ENV method (bug 327355).
Minimum Requirements
********************
Perl
----
Perl v5.6.1 (changed from 2.18) (Non-Windows platforms)
ActiveState Perl v5.8.1 (Windows only)
For MySQL Users
---------------
MySQL v3.23.41 (Note: 2.22 will require MySQL 4.x)
perl module: DBD::mysql v2.9003 (changed from 2.18)
For PostgreSQL Users (new in 2.20)
--------------------
PostgreSQL 7.3.x (8.x has received less testing)
perl module: DBD::Pg 1.31 (1.41 required for PostgreSQL 8+)
Required Perl Modules
---------------------
AppConfig v1.52
CGI v2.93
Data::Dumper (any)
Date::Format v2.21
DBI v1.38 (changed from 2.18)
File::Spec v0.84 (changed from 2.18)
File::Temp (any)
Template Toolkit v2.08
Text::Wrap v2001.0131
Mail::Mailer 1.65 (new in 2.20)
Storable (any) (new in 2.20)
Optional Perl Modules
---------------------
Chart::Base v1.0
GD v1.20
GD::Graph (any)
GD::Text::Align (any)
Net::LDAP (any)
PatchReader v0.9.4
XML::Parser (any)
What's New?
***********
Experimental PostgreSQL Support
-------------------------------
In addition to MySQL, Bugzilla now also supports PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL
support is still somewhat experimental. Although most major features of
Bugzilla work on PostgreSQL in 2.20, there are probably still a few bugs
that need to be worked out.
PostgreSQL support in 2.20 is acceptable for smaller production
environments that don't mind running into a bug or two now and then.
New User-Interface Color/Style
------------------------------
You'll notice that Bugzilla looks a bit nicer, now! We've made a few
color and style changes to update the overall "feel" of Bugzilla's
User Inteface. We plan to do even more work on the UI for 2.22.
Higher-Level Categorization of Bugs (above "Product")
-----------------------------------------------------
Previous Bugzillas had "Products" that you could file bugs in,
and "Components" for those products. Now, "Products" can be grouped
into "Classifications."
To enable this, a Bugzilla administrator can turn on the
"useclassification" parameter, using editparams.cgi.
Regular Reports by Email of Complex Queries ("Whining")
-------------------------------------------------------
You can now tell Bugzilla to do a specific query (or set of queries)
every X minutes/hours/days, and send you the results by email. This is
great for keeping track on a daily basis of what's going on in
your Bugzilla.
"Environment Variable" Authentication Method
--------------------------------------------
You can now tell Bugzilla to accept a certain value passed in from
Apache as authentication for Bugzilla users. This means that Bugzilla
now "supports" any type of authentication that Apache supports.
To use this, set the "user_info_class" parameter to "ENV" and, at a
minimum, set the "auth_env_email" parameter to the name of the
Environment variable that passes the authenticated user (usually
"REMOTE_USER"). If your webserver knows users' real names as well, also
set the "auth_env_realname" parameter. If you are using a true
single-signon system that assigns an identifier uniquely to an
individual, even across changes of email address, then set
"auth_env_id" to the name of that variable.
User-List Drop-Down Menus
-------------------------
Now, anywhere in Bugzilla where you previously had to type in an
email address by hand, you have the choice of having Bugzilla instead
display a drop-down menu of users to pick from.
This feature is best for small installations with few users, because
on large installations the list grows too large to be useful.
To enable the feature, turn on the "usemenuforusers" parameter in
editparams.cgi.
Server-Side Comment Wrapping
----------------------------
In older Bugzillas, comments were wrapped to 80 characters by the
user's web browser, and then stored in the database that way. This caused
problems because some browsers did not wrap comments properly.
Now, Bugzilla stores comments unwrapped and wraps them at display time, so
all new comments should be properly wrapped. Also, when you upgrade, Bugzilla
will look for old "mis-wrapped" comments and attempt to wrap them properly.
Lines beginning with the ">" character are assumed to be quotes, and are
*not* wrapped.
UI for Editing Priority, OS, Platform, and Severity
---------------------------------------------------
Bugzilla now has a User Interface for adding and removing values
from the OS, Platform, Priority, and Severity fields. You can also
rename values. Any user in the "editcomponents" group can click
on the "Field Values" link in their page footer to edit these fields.
Also, the default list of choices for OS and Platform for new
installations is now much smaller. Old installations will keep
the same list they have now.
Bugzilla Queries as RSS
-----------------------
You can now view a Bugzilla query as valid RSS 1.0. This means that you
could add a particular query to your RSS aggregator, if you wanted, to
keep track of changes in Bugzilla.
To see a query as RSS, just click on the "RSS" link on the bottom of
your query results. Your query must return at least 1 result in order
for you to see the link.
Choice of E-Mail Sending Methods
--------------------------------
Bugzilla now uses perl's Mail::Mailer to send e-mail. This means that
you have several choices of how Bugzilla can send email. By default, it
still uses sendmail, but it can also use SMTP, qmail, or send all email
to a file instead of out to users.
A Bugzilla administrator can change which method is used by setting the
"mail_delivery_method" parameter in editparams.cgi.
"User Preferences"
------------------
Bugzilla users will now notice a section in their Preferences called
"General Preferences." Administrators will notice a new link called
"User Preferences."
The Preferences system allows Bugzilla developers to specify arbitrary
"user preferences" that change the behavior of certain parts of Bugzilla.
Administrators can control whether or not users are allowed to use these
preferences, and what the default settings are for a user who is not
logged in.
The first two preferences that we have implemented are:
+ "Show a quip at the top of each bug list"
+ "When viewing a bug, show comments in this order..."
We plan to implement more preferences in the future.
"Large Attachment" Storage
--------------------------
Bugzilla can now store very large attachments on disk instead of in the
database. These attachments can't be searched with Boolean Charts, but
they also don't take up database space, and they can be deleted individually
by the admin.
When uploading an attachment, a user chooses if it's a "Big File." If so,
it's stored on the disk instead of in the database.
To enable this feature, set the "maxlocalattachmentsize" parameter to
a non-zero value, in editparams.cgi.
"User Visibility" Controls
--------------------------
It is now possible to prevent users from encountering all other users when
using user-matching or drop-down userlists. To enable this restriction,
enable the "usevisibilitygroups" parameter. Once this is enabled, each
group's permissions will include a new column for "visible." The members
of any group for which the group being edited is visible will be
able to user-match this groups's users or see them in dropdown lists.
This does not control who a user can CC on a bug, only who they can
see in the user-matching lists or drop-downs.
Miscellaneous Improvements
--------------------------
- Marking an attachment as obsolete will now cancel all pending flag
requests for that attachment. That is, any flag that was set to "?"
on that attachment will be cleared.
- You can now see which users are "watching" you, on the email
preferences page.
- You can tell Bugzilla to mark certain comments in a different
color by adding "&mark=1,2,3,5-7" to the end of the show_bug.cgi URL,
where "1,2,3,5-7" means "highlight comment 1, comment 2, comment 3, and
comments 5 through 7."
- "QA Contact" now also appears on the New Bug page, if QA Contacts are
enabled on your installation.
- Bugzilla email now has the "In-Reply-To" header added to it, so if
you use an email client that supports threads, you can view your
Bugzilla email in threads. If you are upgrading to a new version of
Bugzilla, and you want this support, please see the instructions at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=172267
- The email preferences system has been slightly updated. You will notice
the changes on your Email Preferences page.
- You can now negate individual "boolean charts" (in the
"Advanced Searching" section at the bottom of the "Advanced
Search" page). That is, you can add "NOT" to the front of them.
- You can add the words %assignee%, %reporter%, %user% (yourself), or
%qacontact% on the right-hand side of a Boolean Chart. For example, you
could make a Boolean Chart which said "Reporter" "does not equal"
"%assignee%". That would give you all bugs where the Reporter was not
the same as the Assignee.
- You can now search Boolean Charts by "commenter."
- If you have a group with no name, it will be re-named to "group_#" where
"#" is the numeric Bugzilla Group ID for that group.
- If you are using time-tracking, you can now see a report of time spent
on bugs using summarize_time.cgi.
- If you are using time-tracking, bugzilla will now set "hours remaining"
to "0" automatically if you RESOLVE a bug, whether you are in the
time-tracking group or not.
Deprecated Features
*******************
- Bugzilla 2.20 is the last Bugzilla version to support MySQL 3.23.x.
Starting with Bugzilla 2.22, Bugzilla will require MySQL 4.0.x. This will
allow Bugzilla to take advantage of the advanced features of MySQL 4.
Outstanding Issues
******************
- (No Bug Number) VERY IMPORTANT: If you have customized the values in
your Status/Resolution field, you must edit checksetup.pl BEFORE YOU
RUN IT. Find the line that starts like this:
bug_status => ["UNCONFIRMED",
That's where you set the values for the Status field.
resolution => ["","FIXED",
And that's where you set values for the Resolution field.
Those are both near line 1826 in checksetup.pl.
If you forget to do this, you will have to manually edit the "bug_status"
and "resolution" tables in the database to contain the correct values.
- bug 37765: VERY IMPORTANT: If you use the "sendmail" support of Bugzilla,
and you use an MTA which is *not* Sendmail (such as Postfix, Exim, etc.)
you MUST turn on the "sendmailnow" parameter or Bugzilla will not send
e-mail correctly.
- (No Bug Number) If you close your web browser while the process_bug.cgi
or post_bug.cgi screen is running, not all emails will be sent, and
the next time that that bug is updated, there will be two updates. This
is because of a behavior of Apache that is beyond our control.
- bug 276230: The support for restricting access to particular Categories of
New Charts is not complete. You should treat the 'chartgroup' Param as the
only access mechanism available. However, additionally, charts migrated from
Old Charts will be restricted to the groups that are marked MANDATORY for
the corresponding Product. There is currently no way to change this
restriction, and the groupings will not be updated if the group configuration
for the Product changes. This will not be fixed in the 2.20 branch.
- bug 69621: If you rename or remove a keyword that is in use on bugs, you will
need to rebuild the "keyword cache" by running sanitycheck.cgi and choosing
the option to rebuild the cache when it asks. Otherwise keywords may not show
up properly in search results.
- (No Bug Number) If you have a lot of non-ASCII data in your Bugzilla (for
example, if you use a translation of Bugzilla), don't enable the XS::Stash
option when you install the Template Toolkit, or your Bugzilla installation
may become slow. This problem is fixed in a not-yet-released version of the
Template Toolkit (after 2.14).
- If at any time you upgraded from a version of Bugzilla between 2.17.4 -
2.17.7 to either 2.18rc3 or 2.19.1, you must manually fix your New Charts in
order for them to work. See the following link for instructions on how to do
this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276237#c18
If you are using 2.18rc3, but did not upgrade from version 2.17.4 or newer,
then you don't need to do this.
- (No Bug Number) If your DBI is really, really old, Bugzilla might fail
with a strange error message when you try to run checksetup.pl. Try
upgrading your DBI using: perl -MCPAN -e'install DBI'
- Bug 126266: Bugzilla does not use UTF-8 to display pages. This means
that if you enter non-ASCII characters into Bugzilla, they may
display strangely, or Bugzilla may have other problems. For a workaround,
see: http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/html/security-bugzilla.html
This has been fixed in the 2.22 series.
- Bug 99215: Flags are not protected by "mid-air collision" detection.
Nor are any attachment changes.
- Bug 89822: When changing multiple bugs at the same time, there is no
"mid-air collision" protection.
- Bug 285614: importxml.pl may be broken in many different ways.
It has been fixed and completely re-written in the 2.22 series.
- (No Bug Number) Note that the email interface (bug_mail.pl) in the
contrib/ directory has not been maintained (as it has no maintainer),
and so may not be working properly. Contributions are welcome, if
anybody would like to work on it.
Upgrading From An Older Bugzilla
************************************
NOTE: Running checksetup.pl to upgrade a large installation (over 10,000 bugs)
may take a significant amount of time. checksetup will try to let
you know how long it will take, but expect downtime of an hour or
more if you have many bugs, many attachments, or many users.
Steps for Upgrading
-------------------
1) View the Sanity Check (sanitycheck.cgi) page on your installation before
upgrading. Attempt to fix all warnings that the page produces before
you go any further, or you may experience problems during your upgrade.
2) Make a backup of the Bugzilla database before you upgrade, perhaps
by using mysqldump.
Example:
mysqldump -u root -p --databases bugs > bugs.db.backup
3) Replace the files in your installation with the new version of Bugzilla,
or you can try to use CVS to upgrade. The Bugzilla.org website has
instructions on how to do the actual installation.
4) Make sure that you run checksetup.pl after you install the new version.
5) View the Sanity Check page again after you run checksetup.pl.
6) It is recommended that, if possible, you fix any problems you find
immediately. Failure to do this may mean that Bugzilla will not work
correctly. Be aware that if the sanity check page contains more errors after
an upgrade, it doesn't necessarily mean there are more errors in your
database, as additional tests are added to the sanity check over time, and
it is possible that those errors weren't being checked for in the old
version.
7) If you want threading support on your Bugzilla email (see the
"Miscellaneous Improvements" section above for a description),
you need to follow the instructions at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=172267
Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
********************************************
The New Database-Compatibility Layer
------------------------------------
For most customizations, this should have no effect. However, you should
be aware that Bugzilla->dbh is now an instance of "Bugzilla::DB" instead
of being a DBI object directly. In fact, it's actually a
Bugzilla::DB::Mysql for MySQL users, and a Bugzilla::DB::Pg for
PostgreSQL users.
Anything called from $dbh (like $dbh->bz_last_key) that starts with
"bz_" or "sql_" is a custom Bugzilla function. Anything *not* starting
with those two prefixes is a normal DBI function.
Methods whose names start with "sql_" generate a piece of a SQL statement.
They generate the correct version of the statement for whichever database
you are using.
Methods whose names start with "bz_" do something directly.
You can see more documentation about this at:
http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.20/pod/Bugzilla/DB.pm
If You Customize Your Database...
---------------------------------
In order to support multiple databases, we had to do something sort of
tricky. Bugzilla now stores what it *thinks* the current database schema
is, in a table called bz_schema.
This means that when checksetup changes the database, it updates the
bz_schema table. When *you* update the database, without using
checksetup to do it, the bz_schema table is *not* updated.
So, if you're going to add/remove a new column/table to Bugzilla, or if you're
going to change the definition of a column, try to do it by adding code to
checksetup in the correct place. (It's one of the places where you find
the word "--TABLE--".)
You can see the documentation on the $dbh functions used to do this at:
http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/2.20/pod/Bugzilla/DB.pm#schema_modification_methods
Many Functions Renamed
----------------------
We are reorganizing the Bugzilla code so that it can support mod_perl. As
part of this, we are moving all functions out of globals.pl and CGI.pl, and
into modules in the Bugzilla/ directory.
Sometimes when we moved them, we also renamed them. The new Bugzilla standard
is to have functions_named_like_this, instead of FunctionsNamedLikeThis.
So if you were using a FunctionNamedLikeThis that no longer works, try just
using it as function_named_like_this. If that doesn't work, you may have to
search for where we put it, and what we renamed it to. Most of the functions
moved to logical places.
If you really can't find it, search bugzilla.mozilla.org using the name
of the old function. We usually moved one function per bug, so the new
name will be somewhere in a bug report.
User Preferences
----------------
Bugzilla now has a "User Preferences" system! These preferences are stored
in the database, and specified by a Bugzilla developer. The Bugzilla
developers actually call these "settings," but we called them "User
Preferences" in the UI to make things clearer.
You access a user's settings differently depending on if you are in a
.cgi file or in a template file:
CGI: Bugzilla->user->settings->{'setting_name'}->value
Template: Bugzilla.user.settings.setting_name.value
Where "setting_name" is the name of the setting. You can see the current
setting names in the "setting" table in the database.
Remember that sometimes you may want to check a user's settings when
making a customization.
To see how to add new settings, search for "add_setting" in checksetup.pl.
Also see the template: template/en/default/global/setting-descs.none.tmpl.
Other Changes
-------------
- The $::unconfirmedstate variable has been replaced by the actual string
"UNCONFIRMED" everywhere in Bugzilla code.
- The %::FORM and %::MFORM variables are no longer used to access form
data. Instead, use $cgi->param(). There are many examples of how to do
this, all over the Bugzilla code.
- SendSQL() and related calls are deprecated, and the various $dbh methods
should be used instead, such as $dbh->prepare() and $dbh->execute().
Bugzilla->dbh is the $dbh handle to use. For more information on how
to use the $dbh methods, see: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/DBI.pm
- The $::userid variable will be going away. Use Bugzilla->user->id instead.
- All global variables (any that start with $::, @::, or %::) will
be entirely gone by Bugzilla 2.24.
Security Fixes in 2.20 Releases
*******************************
2.20.1
------
There were three security issues discovered after the release of
Bugzilla 2.20 that we resolved for Bugzilla 2.20.1. One SQL Injection
(from an administrator only), one Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability
(that mostly affects only the user who can exploit it), and one minor,
extremely specific information leak.
To see details on the vulnerabilities that were fixed, see the
Security Advisory at:
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.16.10/
Release Notes for Previous Versions
***********************************
*****************************************
*** The Bugzilla 2.18.x Release Notes ***
*****************************************
Table of Contents
*****************
- Introduction
- Important Updates In This Point Release
* Version 2.18.1
* Version 2.18.2
- Requirements
* Dependency Requirements
- What's New?
* Generic Reporting
* Generic Charting
* Request System
* Enterprise Group Support
* User Wildcard Matching
* Support for "Insiders"
* Time Tracking
* Authentication module/LDAP improvements
* Improved localization support
* Patch Viewer
* Comment Reply Links
* Full-Text Search
* Email Address Munging
* Simple Search
* Miscellaneous Improvements
* All Changes
- What's Changed?
* Flag Names
* New Saved Search User Interface
* Rules for changing fields
- Removed Features
- Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
- Recommended Practice for the Upgrade
* Note About Upgrading From MySQL With ISAM Tables
* Steps for Upgrading
- Outstanding Issues (<======================== IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ)
- Security Fixes In 2.18 Releases
- Detailed Version-To-Version Release Notes
Introduction
************
This document contains the release notes for Bugzilla 2.18 and
the bugfix releases after 2.18. In this document, recently added,
changed, and removed features of Bugzilla are described.
The 2.18 release is our current stable series, containing the results
of over two years of hard and dedicated work by volunteers all over
the world under the lead of Dave Miller.
Important Updates In This Point Release
***************************************
There are usually many other bug fixes than those listed below,
but the below fixes are the ones that we thought System Administrators
would like to specifically know about.
To see a listing of all changes in this release, you can use the
table available at:
http://www.bugzilla.org/status/changes.html
Version 2.18.1
--------------
+ You can now enter a negative time for "Hours Worked"
in the time-tracking area. (Bug 271276)
+ The BugMail.pm customization required for Windows (as
described in the Bugzilla Guide) now actually works. (Bug 280911)
+ Users who were using Bugzilla 2.8 can now successfully upgrade
to 2.18.1 (they couldn't upgrade to 2.18). (Bug 283403)
+ Dependency mails are now properly sent during a mass-change of bugs.
(Bug 178157)
Version 2.18.2
--------------
+ You can now create accounts with createaccount.cgi even
when the "requirelogin" parameter is turned on. (Bug 294778)
+ Bugs that are in disabled groups may not show a padlock
on the bug list, or may otherwise behave strangely. You
can now fix this using sanitycheck.cgi. (Bug 277454)
+ If sendmail dies while you are marking a bug
as a duplicate, the duplicates table will no longer become
corrupted. (Bug 225042)
Requirements
************
Dependency Requirements
-----------------------
Minimum software requirements:
MySQL v3.23.41 (changed from 2.16)
Perl v5.6.0 (changed from 2.16) (Non-Windows platforms)
ActiveState Perl v5.8.1 (Windows only)
Required Perl modules:
AppConfig v1.52
CGI v2.93 (new since 2.16) (changed from 2.17.7)
Data::Dumper (any)
Date::Format v2.21 (changed from 2.16)
DBI v1.36 (changed from 2.16) (changed from 2.17.7)
DBD::mysql v2.1010 (changed from 2.16)
File::Spec v0.82
File::Temp (any)
Template Toolkit v2.08 (changed from 2.16)
Text::Wrap v2001.0131
Optional Perl modules:
Chart::Base v1.0 (changed from 2.16) (changed from 2.17.7)
GD v1.20 (changed from 2.16)
GD::Graph (any) (new since 2.16)
GD::Text::Align (any) (new since 2.16)
Net::LDAP (any) (new since 2.16)
PatchReader v0.9.4 (new since 2.16) (changed from 2.17.7)
XML::Parser (any)
What's New?
***********
Generic Reporting
-----------------
Bugzilla has a new mechanism for generating reports of the current state of
the bug database. It has two related parts: a table-based view, and several
graphical views.
The table-based view allows you to specify an x, y and z (multiple tables of
data) axis to plot, and then restrict the bugs plotted using the standard
query form. You can view the resulting data as an HTML or CSV export (e.g.:
for importing into a spreadsheet).
There are also bar, line and pie charts, which are defined in a very similar
way. These views may be more appropriate for particular data types, and are
suitable for saving and then putting into presentations or web pages.
Generic Charting
----------------
Bugzilla has a new mechanism for generating charts (graphs over time) of any
arbitrary search. This is known as "New Charts." Legacy data from the previous
charting mechanism ("Old Charts") is migrated into the "New Charts" when you
upgrade. The Old Charts mechanism remains, but is deprecated and will be
removed in a future version of Bugzilla.
Individual users can see/create charts as long as they are a member of the
group specified in the Param 'chartgroup'. Data can be collected for
personal charts every seven days (or a longer period, as set by the user).
Charts created by an administrator can be made public (visible to all). Data
is collected for administrator charts every day (or a longer period, as set
by the admin).
The data is collected by the collectstats.pl script, which an administrator
will need to arrange to be run once every day (see the manual). Chart data can
be plotted in a number of different ways, and different data sets can be
plotted on the same graph for comparison.
Please see the Known Bugs section for some important limitations relating to
access controls on charts.
Request System
---------------
The Request System (RS) is a set of enhancements that adds powerful flag
(superset of the old attachment status) features to the bugs.
RS allows for four states: off, granted, denied, and (optionally) requested,
where "granted" is the equivalent of "on". These additions mean it is no
longer necessary to define a status to negate another status (e.g.
"needs-work" to negate "has-review") because negation is built into each
status via the status' "denied" state. Bug statuses: Previously only
attachments could have these kinds of statuses. RS enables them for bugs as
well. This feature can be used to request and grant/deny certain properties
for a bug, such as inclusion for a specific milestone or approval for checkin.
This way, Bugzilla supports the natural decision-making process in your
organization.
- Requests: Flags can now optionally be made requestable, which means users
can ask other users to set them. When a user requests a flag, Bugzilla
emails the requestee and adds the request to a browsable queue so both the
requester and the requestee can keep track of its status. Once the
requestee fulfills the request by setting the flag to either granted or
denied, Bugzilla emails the requestee and removes the request from the
queue. This feature supports workflow like the mozilla.org code review
and milestone approval processes, whereby code is peer reviewed before
being committed and patches get approved by product release managers for
inclusion in specific product releases.
- Product/component specificity: Previously flags were product-specific, and
if you wanted the same flag for multiple products you had to define
multiple flags with the same name. Flags are now
product/component-specific, and a single flag can be enabled or disabled
for multiple product/component combinations via inclusions and exclusions
lists. Flags are enabled for all combinations on their inclusions list
except those that appear on their exclusions list.
Enterprise Group Support
------------------------
Bugzilla is no longer limited to 55 access control groups. Administrators can
define an arbitrary number of access groups composed of individual users or
other groups. The groups can be configured via the web interface to achieve a
wide variety of access control policies. See the documentation section on
'Groups And Group Controls' for details.
User Wildcard Matching
----------------------
Sites can now enable the use of wildcards and substrings in bug entry and
editing forms. If the user enters an incomplete username, he'll get a list of
users that matched the given username.
Support for "Insiders"
----------------------
If the 'insidergroup' parameter is defined, a specific group of users can be
designated insiders who can designate comments and attachments as private to
other insiders. These comments and attachments will be invisible to other
users who are not members of the insiders group even if the bugs to which they
apply are visible. Other insiders will see the comments and attachments with a
visual tinting indicating that they are private.
Time Tracking
-------------
Controls for tracking time spent fixing bugs are included in the bug form for
members of the group specified by the 'timetrackinggroup' parameter. Any time
comments are added to the bug, members of the time tracking group can add an
amount of time they spent, and it's figured into the total and displayed at
the top of the bug. Shown in the bug are your original estimate, the amount of
time spent so far, the revised estimate of how much time is remaining, and
your gain/loss on the original estimate.
Authentication module/LDAP improvements
---------------------------------------
Bugzilla's authentication mechanisms have been modularized, making pluggable
authentication schemes for Bugzilla a reality. Both the existing database and
LDAP systems were ported as part of modularization process. Additionally, the
CGI portion of the backend was redesigned to allow for authentication from
other sources, including (theoretically) email, which will help Bug 94850.
As part of this conversion, LDAP logins now use Perl's standard Net::LDAP
module, which has no external library dependencies.
Improved localization support
-----------------------------
Bugzilla administrators can now configure which languages are supported by
their installations and automatically serve correct, localized content to
users based on the HTTP 'Accept-Language' header sent from users' browsers.
There are currently localized templates available for: Arabic, Belarusian,
Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) Spanish (Spain
or Mexico) and Russian. These localized template packs are third-party
contributions, may only be available for specific versions, and may not be
supported in the future. (http://www.bugzilla.org/download/#localizations)
Patch Viewer
------------
Viewing and reviewing patches in Bugzilla is often difficult due to lack of
context, improper format and the inherent readability issues that raw patches
present. Patch Viewer is an enhancement to Bugzilla designed to fix that by
offering increased context, linking to sections, and integrating with Bonsai,
LXR and CVS.
Comment Reply Links
-------------------
In Edit Bug, each bug comment now includes a convenient (reply) link that
quotes the comment text into the textarea. This feature is only enabled in
Javascript-capable browsers, but causes no inconvenience to other user agents.
Full-Text Search
----------------
It is now possible to query the Bugzilla database using full-text searching,
which spans comments and summaries, and which searches for substrings and stem
variations of the search term. Basically, it's like using Google.
Email Address Munging
---------------------
The fact that raw email addresses are displayed in Bugzilla makes it trivial
for bots that spamharvest to spider through Bugzilla, in particular, through
Bugzilla's buglists. This change adds HTML obfuscation of email addresses as
they appear in the Bugzilla web pages.
Google-like Bug Search
----------------------
Bugzilla now includes a very simple, Google-like "Find a Specific Bug" page,
in addition to its advanced search page.
Miscellaneous Improvements
--------------------------
- The "Assigned To" field on the new bug page is now prefilled with the default
component owner.
- A bug alias column is now available in the buglist page.
- Lists of bugs containing errors in the sanity check page now have a "view as
buglist" link in addition to the individual bug links.
- Autolinkification Page - It's now possible to apply Bugzilla's comment
hyperlinking algorithm to any text you like. This should be useful for status
updates and other web pages which give lists of bugs. The bug links created
include the subject, status and resolution of the bug as a tooltip.
- There are more tags on the links toolbar for navigating quickly between
different areas.
- Buglists are now available as comma-separated value files (CSV) and JavaScript
(JS) as well as HTML and RDF.
- Keywords and dependencies can now be entered during initial bug entry.
- A CSS id signature unique to each Bugzilla installation is now added to the

tag on Bugzilla pages to allow custom end-user CSS to explicitly affect
Bugzilla.
- Perl's path has been changed to a normal /usr/bin/perl from the original
legacy "bonsaitools" path specifier.
- A new "always-require-login" parameter allows administrators to require a
login before being able to view any page, except the front page.
- A developer may add an attachment, and also reassign a bug to himself as part
of that single action.
- Bugzilla is now able to use the replication facilities provided by the
MySQL database to handle updates from the main database to the secondaries.
- Mail handling is now between 125% to 175% faster.
- Guided Bug Entry: You can see a sample enter_bug.cgi template at
enter_bug.cgi?format=guided that "guides" users through the process of
filing a "good" bug. It needs to be modified before use in your organization.
- There is now a "Give me some help" link on the Advanced Search page that will
enable pop-up help for every field on the page.
- The Bugzilla administrator can now forbid users from marking bugs RESOLVED
when there are unresolved dependencies.
All Changes
-----------
To see a list of EVERY bug that was fixed between 2.16 and 2.18 (over 1000),
see: http://tinyurl.com/6m3e4
What's Changed?
***************
Flag names
----------
Prerelease versions of Bugzilla 2.17 and 2.18 inadvertantly allowed
commas and spaces in the names of flags, which due to the way they're
processed, caused lots of internal havoc if you named flags to have
any commas or spaces in them. Having commas or spaces in the names
can cause errors in the notification emails and in the bug activity
log. The ability to create new flags with these characters has been
removed. If you have any existing flags that you named that way,
running checksetup will attempt to automatically rename them by
replacing commas and spaces with underscores.
New Saved Search User Interface
-------------------------------
In previous Bugzilla versions, you could specify on the search page that you
wanted to save a search and store it as a link in your footer. This option has
now moved to the search results page (buglist.cgi), where you will see a
"Remember search" button with a box next to it to enter the name of the search.
You can manage your saved searches on the Preferences page.
Rules for changing fields
-------------------------
There have been some changes to the rules governing who can change which fields
of a bug report. The rules for Bugzilla version 2.16 and 2.18, along with
differences between them, are listed below. Bear in mind that there are other
restrictions on bug manipulation besides the ones listed below. In particular,
the groups system enforces restrictions on who can create, edit, or even see
any given bug.
Bugzilla 2.16 rules:
- anyone can make a null change;
- anyone can add a comment;
- anyone in the editbugs group can make any change;
- the reporter can make any change to the status;
- anyone in the canconfirm group can change the status
to any opened state (NEW, REOPENED, ASSIGNED).
- anyone can change the status to any opened state
if the everconfirmed flag is set;
- the owner, QA contact, or reporter can make any change
*except* changing the status to an opened state;
- No other changes are permitted.
[Note that these rules combine to allow the reporter to make any change
to the bug.]
Bugzilla 2.18 rules:
- anyone can make a null change;
- anyone can add a comment;
- anyone in the editbugs group can make any change;
- anyone in the canconfirm group can change the status
from UNCONFIRMED to any opened state;
- the owner or QA contact can make any change;
- the reporter can make any change *except*:
- changing the status from UNCONFIRMED to any opened state; or
- changing the target milestone; or
- changing the priority (unless the letsubmitterchoosepriority
parameter is set).
- No other changes are permitted.
The effective differences in the rules:
- In 2.16, the reporter could always change anything about a bug.
In 2.18, the reporter can't:
- confirm the bug unless he is in the canconfirm group;
- change the target milestone;
- change the priority (unless the 'letsubmitterchoosepriority'
parameter is set;
(unless he is also the owner, the QA contact, or in the editbugs
group, in which case he can do all these things).
- In 2.16, the owner or QA contact (if the 'useqacontact' parameter
is set) can't change the bug status to an opened status unless they
are also the reporter, or have editbugs or canconfirm, or the
everconfirmed flag is set on the bug).
In 2.18 the owner or QA contact can make any change to a bug.
- In 2.16, a member of the canconfirm group can set the status
to any opened status.
In 2.18 this is only possible if the status was previously
the unconfirmed status.
- In 2.16, the status can be set to anything by anybody
if the 'everconfirmed' flag is set.
In 2.18, this authorization code does not pay any attention
to the 'everconfirmed' flag.
Removed Features
****************
- Please note that Bugzilla no longer supports MySQL 3.22. The minimum required
version is now 3.23.41.
- The "shadow database" mechanism is no longer used. Instead, use MySQL's
built-in replication feature.
- If you have placed any comments in the localconfig file, they may be removed
by checksetup.pl.
Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations
********************************************
- A mechanism (called "Template Hooks") for third party extensions to plug into
existing templates without having to patch or replace distributed templates
has been added. More information on this can be found in the documentation.
- Header output now uses CGI.pm, in a step towards enabling mod_perl
compatibility. This change will affect users that had customized charsets in
their CGI files: previously the charset had to be added everywhere that
printed the Content-Type header; now it only needs changing in one spot, in
Bugzilla/CGI.pm.
- $::FORM{} and $::COOKIE{} are deprecated. Use the $cgi methods to access
them.
- $::userid is gone in favor of Bugzilla->user->id
- ConnectToDatabase() is gone (it's done automatically when you initialize the
Bugzilla object)
- quietly_check_login() and confirm_login() are gone, use Bugzilla->login()
with parameters for whether the login is required or not.
- Use Bugzilla->user->login in place of $::COOKIE{Bugzilla_login}
- You can tell if there's a user logged in or not by using
Bugzilla->user rather than looking for $::userid==0.
In new 2.18 code, use defined(Bugzilla->user) && (Bugzilla->user->id)
In 2.20, this will become just (Bugzilla->user->id)
In templates, always test [% IF user.id %] rather than [% IF user %]
- SendSQL() and related calls are deprecated, and the various $dbh methods
should be used instead, such as $dbh->prepare() and $dbh->execute().
Bugzilla->dbh is the $dbh handle to use.
Recommended Practice for the Upgrade
************************************
Note About Upgrading From MySQL With ISAM Tables
------------------------------------------------
As previously noted in the Dependency Requirements MySQL is now required
to be at least version 3.23.41. This implies that all tables of type ISAM will
be converted by the checksetup.pl script to MyISAM.
Steps for Upgrading
-------------------
1) View the Sanity Check (sanitycheck.cgi) page on your installation before
upgrading.
2) As with any upgrade it is recommended that you make a backup of the
Bugzilla database before you upgrade, perhaps by using mysqldump.
Example:
mysqldump -u root -p --databases bugs > bugs.db.backup
3) Replace the files in your installation, or you can try to use CVS to upgrade.
The Bugzilla.org website has instructions on how to do the actual
installation.
4) Make sure that you run checksetup.pl after you install the new version.
5) View the Sanity Check page again after you run checksetup.pl.
6) It is recommended that, if possible, you fix any problems you find
immediately. Failure to do this may mean that Bugzilla will not work
correctly. Be aware that if the sanity check page contains more errors after
an upgrade, it doesn't necessarily mean there are more errors in your
database, as additional tests are added to the sanity check over time, and
it is possible that those errors weren't being checked for in the old
version.
Outstanding Issues
******************
These are known problems with the release that we think you should know about.
They each have a bug number for http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
- If at any time you upgraded from a version of Bugzilla between 2.17.4 -
2.17.7 to either 2.18rc3 or 2.19.1, you must manually fix your New Charts in
order for them to work. See the following link for instructions on how to do
this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276237#c18
If you are using 2.18rc3, but did not upgrade from version 2.17.4 or newer,
then you don't need to do this.
- bug 37765: If you use an MTA other than sendmail (such as Postfix, Exim,
etc.) you MUST turn on the "sendmailnow" parameter or Bugzilla will not send
e-mail correctly.
- bug 276230: The support for restricting access to particular Categories of
New Charts is not complete. You should treat the 'chartgroup' Param as the
only access mechanism available. However, additionally, charts migrated from
Old Charts will be restricted to the groups that are marked MANDATORY for
the corresponding Product. There is currently no way to change this
restriction, and the groupings will not be updated if the group configuration
for the Product changes.
- bug 69621: If you rename or remove a keyword that is in use on bugs, you will
need to rebuild the "keyword cache" by running sanitycheck.cgi and choosing
the option to rebuild the cache when it asks. Otherwise keywords may not show
up properly in search results.
- (No Bug Number) If you have a lot of non-ASCII data in your Bugzilla (for
example, if you use a translation of Bugzilla), don't enable the XS::Stash
option when you install the Template Toolkit, or your Bugzilla installation
may become slow. This problem is fixed in a not-yet-released version of the
Template Toolkit (after 2.14).
- bug 266579: Users may be able to circumvent not having "canconfirm" privileges
in some circumstances. This is fixed starting with 2.19.3, but will not
be fixed in any 2.18 release, as the changes required to fix it are quite
large.
- bug 99215: Attachment changes have no mid-air collision detection, unlike bug
changes.
- bug 57350: Searching using the "commenter is" option may be VERY slow. Note
that searching for "field: comment, changed by: user@domain.com" is fast,
though.
- bug 151509: Using the boolean chart option "contains the string" with the
"flag name" field or certain other fields will cause Bugzilla to emit an
error. This is fixed in 2.20rc1, but will not be fixed in the 2.18 series.
- bug 234159: Bugzilla may sometimes send multiple notices in one email.
- bug 237107: If you search for attachment information using the Boolean Charts
at the bottom of the Advanced Query page, bugs without attachments will not
show up in the result list.
Security Fixes In 2.18 Releases
*******************************
Version 2.18
------------
Summary: XSS in Internal Error messages in Bugzilla 2.16.7 and 2.18rc3
CVE Name: CAN-2004-1061
Reference: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272620
Details:
It is possible to send a carefully crafted URL to Bugzilla designed to
trigger an error message. The Internal Error message includes javascript code
which displays the URL the user is visiting. The javascript code does not
escape the URL before displaying it, allowing scripts contained in the URL to
be executed by the browser. Many browsers do not allow unescaped URLs to be
sent to a webserver (thus complying with RFC 2616 section 2.3.1 and RFC 2396
section 2.4.3), and are thus immune to this issue.
Browsers which are known to be immune: Firefox 1.0, Mozilla 1.7.5,
Camino 0.8.2, Netscape 7.2, Safari 1.2.4
Browsers known to be susceptible: Internet Explorer 6 SP2,
Konqueror 3.2
Browsers not listed here have not been tested.
Version 2.18.1
--------------
Two security issues were fixed in Bugzilla 2.18.1, neither of them
critical.
See http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.16.8/ for details.
Version 2.18.2
--------------
Two security issues were fixed in Bugzilla 2.18.2. One of them
is a major Information Leak/Unauthorized Bug Change. The other
is a minor Information Leak.
See http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.18.1/ for details.
Detailed Version-To-Version Release Notes
*****************************************
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.7 ***
*********************************************************
*** Security fixes ***
- It is possible to send a carefully crafted HTTP POST message to
process_bug.cgi which will remove keywords from a bug even if you don't have
permissions to edit all bug fields (the "editbugs" permission). Such changes
are reported in "bug changed" email notifications, so they are easily
detected and reversed if someone abuses it. Users are now prevented from
making changes to keywords if they do not have editbugs privileges. (bug
252638)
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- Enforce a minimum of 10 minutes between attempts to reset a password, so
we don't mailbomb the user if someone submits the form many times in a
row. (bug 250897)
- Put products in alphabetical order on the create attachment status page.
(bug 251427)
- Specify MyISAM as the table type when creating new tables. MySQL 4.1 and
up default to InnoDB, which doesn't support some of the indexing methods
that we use. (bug 263165)
*********************************************************
*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.6 ***
*********************************************************
*** Security fixes ***
- If Bugzilla is configured to hide entire products from some users, both
duplicates.cgi and the form for mass-editing a list of bugs in buglist.cgi
can disclose the names of those hidden products to such users.
(bugs 234825 and 234855)
- Several administration CGIs echo invalid data back to the user without
escaping it. (bug 235265)
- A user with privileges to grant membership to any group (i.e. usually an
administrator) can trick editusers.cgi into executing arbitrary SQL.
(bug 244272)
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- Allow XML import to function when there are regexp metacharacters in product
names (bug 237591)
- Allow the bug_email.pl contrib script to work with useqacontact (bug 239912)
- Improve the error message used by checksetup.pl when the MySQL requirements
are not met (bug 240228)
- Elimnate the warning in checksetup.pl about the minimum sendmail version (bug
240060)
- $webservergroup now defaults to group 'apache' in new installations (bug
224477)
- Correct a situation where a bugmail message could be sent twice to a user
being added to the CC list if the address was entered in a different case
than the user registered with. (bug 117297)
- Various documentation updates
*********************************************************
*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.4 ***
*********************************************************
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- Fix a "used only once" warning that ocurred only in perl 5.00503
(bug 2321691)
- When a user is creating a new account and enters an invalid email
address, the error page sent the "Content-type" header twice, causing
the second one to be visible at the top of the page.
(bug 137121)
- An HTML encoding issue which only affected Internet Explorer was
corrected in the "Change several bugs at once" page.
(bug 181106)
- During initial setup, using invalid characters in the administrator
password would present an error message stating your password was
too long or too short instead of telling you it had invalid
characters.
(bug 166755)
- When a user reset their own password via an emailed token, the new
password in the first field would be accepted if the second password
field was left blank.
(bug 123077)
- Reopening bugs from the "change several bugs at once" page now works.
(bug 95430)
- Fix a regression in xml.cgi caused by the previous bugfix for MySQL
SUM() changes. The original fix didn't work properly either.
(bug 225474)
- No longer use server push with the "Safari" browser, which claims to
use the Mozilla layout engine but doesn't.
(bug 188712)
- Creating a shadow database no longer fails with taint mode errors.
(bug 227510)
- If you change your cookiepath setting at some stage (because you have
moved the directory Bugzilla resides on your webserver), users can
have login cookies with the old cookiepath, and their browsers will
send multiple logincookies. Bugzilla now uses the first rather than
the last in order to get the most specific cookie which will be the
correct one.
(bug 121419)
- Fixed a regression caused by the previous DBD::mysql fixes, that
caused older versions of DBD::mysql to break due to not supporting
the new DBI syntax.
(bug 224815)
- Bugzilla no longer sends out invalid dates for cookie expiry. This
bug had no known user visible ramifications.
(bug 228706)
- Update the shadow database parameters description to tell the user
about permissions requirements for creating a shadow database.
(bug 227513)
- Various documentation updates.
*********************************************************
*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.3 ***
*********************************************************
*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- A user with 'editproducts' privileges (i.e. usually an administrator)
can select arbitrary SQL to be run by the nightly statistics cron job
(collectstats.pl), by giving a product a special name.
(bug 214290)
- A user with 'editkeywords' privileges (i.e. usually an administrator)
can inject arbitrary SQL via the URL used to edit an existing keyword.
(bug 219044)
- When deleting products and the 'usebuggroups' parameter is on, the
privilege which allows someone to add people to the group which is
being deleted does not get removed, allowing people with that
privilege to get that privilege for the next group that is created
which reuses that group ID. Note that this only allows someone who
had been granted privileges in the past to retain them.
(bug 219690)
- If you know the email address of someone who has voted on a secure
bug, you can access the summary of that bug even if you do not have
sufficient permissions to view the bug itself.
(bug 209376)
*** Bug fixes of note ***
Perl 5.8.0 Compatibility fixes:
- Two taint errors were fixed, one in process_bug.cgi, and
another in post_bug.cgi.
(bugs 220332 and 177828)
MySQL 4.0 Compatibility fixes:
- A cosmetic fix was applied to votes.cgi (if there were no
votes, the "0" was not displayed) due to a change in semantics
in SUM() in MySQL 4.0.
(bug 217422)
DBD::mysql > 2.1026 Compatibility fixes:
- DBD::mysql versions after 2.1026 return the table list quoted, which
broke the existing "table exists" check in checksetup.pl, which caused
the second and subsequent attempts to run checksetup.pl to fail.
(bug 212095)
Miscellaneous bug fixes:
- A Mozilla-specific reference was removed from one of the report
templates.
(bug 221626)
- It was possible to enter a situation where you were unable to get to
editparams.cgi to turn the shutdownhtml param back off after you
turned it on when Apache was configured to run Bugzilla in suexec
mode.
(bug 213384)
- The processmail rescanall task would not send e-mails about more than
one bug to the same address.
(bug 219508)
- If Bugzilla hadn't been accessed in the last hour when the
collectstats.pl or whineatnews.pl cron jobs ran, the versioncache
would get recreated with the file owner being the user the cron job
was running as (usually not the webserver user), causing subsequent
access to Bugzilla by the webserver to fail until the permissions were
fixed. Now if versioncache isn't readable when accessing from the
webserver, we pretend it doesn't exist and recreate it again.
(bug 160422)
- The 'sendmailnow' param is now on by default in new installations
(this does not affect existing installations).
(bug 146087)
- The 008filter.t test would fail if you had multiple language packs
installed. It now properly tests all of the installed language packs.
(bug 203318)
- A few minor documentation changes were committed.
*********************************************************
*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.2 ***
*********************************************************
*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- A cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed in which bug
summaries were not properly filtered when a user viewed a dependency graph
allowing JavaScript to be embedded on that page.
(bug 192661)
- Several XSS vulnerabilities were fixed in which user
input was not escaped when being displayed. A new
test has been added to warn about unfiltered data in template
files (t/008filter.t).
(bug 192677)
- An issue was fixed in which the QA contact was still treated as the QA
contact even after the 'useqacontact' setting was turned off. This also
allowed the QA contact to edit the security groups and view secured bugs that
he/she was allowed to access prior to the 'useqacontact' setting being
deactivated.
(bug 194394)
- Fixed a situation where an attacker (with local access to the webserver)
could overwrite any file on the webserver to which the webserver user
has write access by creating appropriately named symbolic links in the
data and webdot directories (world-writable in many configurations).
Bugzilla now uses File::Temp to create secure temporary files. File::Temp
is part of the Perl distribution for Perl 5.6.1 and later, but if you're
using an older version of Perl you'll need to install it with CPAN.
(bug 197153)
** IMPORTANT CHANGES ***
- New module requirement: File::Temp, as mentioned above.
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- An issue was fixed in which administrator rights could be removed from an
administrator who deleted a product while the 'usebuggroups' setting is
activated.
(bug 157704)
- Fixed an issue in which importxml.pl would fail the test suite when running
under perl 5.8.0 with the optional XML::Parse module.
(bug 172331)
- There was previously a bug in CGI.pl in which the following warning
would be given under certain conditions:
"Character in "c" format wrapped at CGI.pl..."
This is now fixed. In some cases the warning was filling up web server log
files.
(bug 194125)
- Fixed a bug in which long component names (in excess of 50 characters) would
be accepted when creating the component but would cause problems when trying
to use that component on a bug because it would get truncated. It is now no
longer possible to create components with names in excess of 50 characters.
(bug 197180)
- Fixed a bug in checksetup.pl in which permissions were not being fixed
on the 'data/comments' file, the quip file.
(bug 160279)
*****************************************************************
*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.16.1 OR EARLIER, 2.14.4 OR EARLIER ***
*****************************************************************
*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- Fixed a cross site scriptability issue in quips. This is only a problem
if quips with HTML could have been inserted into your quips files. Bugzilla
has not allowed this since 2.12.
(bug 179329)
- checksetup.pl will now attempt to prevent access to "editor backups" of
localconfig.
(bug 186383)
- collectstats.pl no longer makes data/mining (which contains graphing
information) world writeable.
(bug 183188)
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.16.0 OR EARLIER ***
***********************************************
*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- Apostrophes were not properly handled in email addresses. This was a
regression introduced in 2.16. It is not known whether this was
exploitable.
(bug 165221)
See also next major section.
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- The VERSION cookie which allowed the previously entered version of a product
to be remembered was not correctly set. It was only set as a session
cookie, and under some circumstances could interfere with other cookies
(such as the login information) send at the same time.
(bug 160227)
- importxml.pl would fail if the versioncache needed to be updated.
(bug 164464)
- Bug changes going through intermediate pages would munge fields with
multiple fields, such as CCs.
(bug 161203)
- On failure in template->new, Bugzilla will now die rather than futilely
attempt to use an error template.
(bug 166023)
- Fixed a problem where checksetup had problems converting old installations
that didn't have a duplicates table.
(bug 151619)
- Fixed a problem that caused taint errors when viewing or editing user
preferences with Perl 5.005 and Template 2.08.
(bug 160710)
See also next section.
******************************************************
*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.16.0, 2.14.3 OR EARLIER ***
******************************************************
*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- When a new product is added to an installation with 47 groups or more and
"usebuggroups" is enabled, the new group will be assigned a groupset bit
using Perl math that is not exact beyond 2^48. This results in the new
group being defined with a "bit" that has several bits set. As users are
given access to the new group, those users will also gain access to
spurious lower group privileges. Also, group bits were not always reused
when groups were deleted.
(bug 167485)
- The email interface had another insecure single parameter system call. This
could potentially allow arbitrary shell commands to be run. This file is
not supported at this time, but as long as we knew about the problem, we
couldn't overlook it.
(bug 163024)
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- The email interface was broken. This was a 2.14.3 regression. This file
is not supported at this time, but as long as we knew about the problem, we
couldn't overlook it.
(bug 160631)
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.5 OR EARLIER ***
***********************************************
*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- The bug reporter could set the priority even when
'letsubmitterchoosepriority' was off.
(bug 63018)
- Most CGIs are now templatized. This helps to make it
easier to remember to HTML filter values and easier to spot
when they are not, preventing cross site scripting attacks.
(bug 86168)
- Most CGIs now run in taint mode. This helps to prevent
failure to validate errors.
(bug 108982)
*** IMPORTANT CHANGES ***
- 2.16 introduces "templatization", a new feature that allows
administrators to easily customize the HTML output (the "look and feel")
of Bugzilla without altering Perl code. Bugzilla uses the
"Template Toolkit" for this. Please see the "Template Customization"
section of the Bugzilla Guide for more details.
Administrators who ran the 2.15 development version with custom
templates should check the templates are still valid, as file names
and file paths have changed.
Most output is now templatized. This process will be complete next
milestone.
For speed, compiled templates are cached on disk. If you modify the
templates, the toolkit will normally detect the changes, and recompile the
changed templates.
Adding new directories anywhere inside the template directory may cause
permission errors if you don't have a webservergroup specified in
localconfig. If you see these, rerun checksetup.pl as root. If you do not
have root access, or cannot get someone who does to do this for you, you can
rename the data/template directory to data/template.old (or any other name
Bugzilla doesn't use). Then rerun checksetup.pl to regenerate the compiled
templates.
(bug 86168, 97832)
- Administrators can now configure maximum attachment sizes. These
should remain below the maximum size for your MySQL server, or you
will get obscure MySQL errors if you attach a bigger attachment.
To find out the current size attachment that MySQL can accept, type
the command 'mysqladmin variables' and find out the value of the
'max_allowed_packet' varible in bytes.
To change the maximum size that MySQL can accept you can alter this
variable in your 'my.cnf' file.
(bug 91664)
- Perl 5.004 is no longer supported because the Template Toolkit
requires 5.005.
(bug 97721)
- New module requirements: Text::Wrap, Template [requires AppConfig],
File::Spec.
(bugs 97784, 84338, 103778)
- The index page is now a CGI instead of an HTML page. You should remove
any existing index.html file and make sure your web server allows index.cgi
to be the default page in a directory. If you are not able to do that you
can instead set index_html in the 'localconfig' file to 1 and checksetup.pl
will create a redirect page for you.
(bug 80183)
- It is now recommended that administrators run "processmail rescanall"
after upgrading to 2.16 or beyond.
This will send out notification emails for changes that were
made but not emailed, due to Bugzilla bugs. All known
causes of this have been fixed in this version (bug 104589 and 99519).
It is also recommended that this be run nightly to avoid
lengthy delays in future if this problem reoccurs.
(bug 106377)
- In parallel with templatization, a lot of changes have been made to the HTML
output of the Bugzilla CGIs. This could break code that attempts to parse
such code. For example, this breaks mozbot.
(no bug number)
- The "HTML template" parameters (headerhtml, bodyhtml, footerhtml,
errorhtml, bannerhtml, blurbhtml, mostfreqhtml, entryheaderhtml) have now
been moved to Template Toolkit templates. If you have modified these
parameters you will need to make corresponding changes to the corresponding
templates. Your old parameter values will be moved to a file called
old-params.txt by checksetup.pl.
The old parameters correspond to files in template/en/default as follows:
headerhtml: global/header.html.tmpl
footerhtml: global/footer.html.tmpl
bannerhtml: global/banner.html.tmpl
blurbhtml: global/banner.html.tmpl
mostfreqhtml: reports/duplicates*.html.tmpl
entryheaderhtml: bug/create/user-message.html.tmpl
(bug 140437)
*** Other changes of note ***
- The query page has been redesigned for better user friendliness.
(bug 98707)
- Users can now change their email account.
(bug 23067)
- "Dependent Bug Changed" notification emails now contain the
dependent bug's summary and URL.
(bug 28736, 113383)
- Bugs with severity "critical", "blocker", and "enhancement" are
visually differentiated on bug lists for browsers with sufficient
CSS support.
(bug 28884)
- Bugzilla now has a sidebar for the Mozilla browser.
(bug 37339)
- A link to just created attachments now appears in notification
email.
(bug 66651)
- Comments now have numbers and can be referenced with
autohyperlinkifying similar to bugs.
(bug 71840)
- The attachment system has been rewritten, supporting new
"attachment statuses" (like keywords, but for attachments),
the ability to obsolete attachments, edit attachment MIME type,
and edit whether the attachment is a patch.
(bugs 84338, 75176)
- syncshadowdb now supports a configurable temp file location,
and properly shuts down Bugzilla while running.
(bug 75840)
- Dependency tree now lets you exclude resolved bugs and bugs
below a specified depth.
(bugs 83058)
- The "strictvaluechecks" parameter has gone away. These checks
are now always done.
(bug 119715)
- The midair collision page now shows all changes since the bug
page was loaded, not just the last one.
(bug 108312)
- Added support for making dependency graphs with 'dot', which
is better at creating complex graphs than 'webdot'.
(bug 120537)
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- Bugzilla scripts are now usually not terminated when the browser
window they are running in is closed. This caused hard to
reproduce bugs.
(bug 104589)
- On browsers that "reflow" the page, large component / milestone /
version fields were extremely slow to reflow when you altered
the product field.
(bug 96534)
- The selection in the component / milestone / version fields is
no longer lost when you change the selection in the product
field or use the back/forward buttons in your browser to return
to the page.
(bug 97966)
- You could not reverse dependencies in one step.
(bug 82143)
- Mass reassignment of non-open bugs will no longer reopen them.
(bug 30731)
- Attempting to bulk change no bugs will now give a user-friendly
error message.
(bug 90333)
- If you make a change to a bug where you only add yourself to CC,
email notifications are now properly sent out for MySQL 3.23.
(bug 99519)
- Bug entry now properly validates the data it has been sent.
(bug 107743)
- Midair collision checks will now properly work in all situations
where dependencies have changed.
(bug 73502)
- Browsers can no longer corrupt the params file if they use the "wrong"
end-of-line markers.
(bug 92500)
- The MySQL port defined in localconfig is now properly honoured.
(bug 98368)
- Apostrophes in component/milestone/version names no longer cause
a problem on the query page.
(bug 30689/42810)
- File attachment comments will now wrap.
(bug 52060)
- Saved queries are no longer mangled if you need to log in again,
for example if you had cookies off.
(bug 38835)
- Bug counts (on reports.cgi) were very slow if you had to
count a lot of bugs.
(bug 63249)
- 2.14 introduced options to let people see a bug when their name
is on it but who aren't in the groups the bug is restricted
to. These only allowed the people to view the bugs directly,
and not see them on buglists and receive email about them.
(bugs 95024, 97469)
- A new 'cookiepath' parameter on editparams.cgi allows multiple
Bugzilla installations to exist on one host without problems.
(bug 19910)
- whineatnews.pl now respects the 'sendmailnow' parameter.
(bug 52782)
- The query page came up even when Bugzilla was shut down.
(bug 121747)
- Quicksearch gave a weird error message when Bugzilla was
shut down.
(bug 121741)
- Operating system detection fixes.
(bugs 92763, 135666)
- QA contacts now receive emails when a new bug is created and
their only email preference was being added or removed from QA.
(bug 143091)
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.4 OR EARLIER ***
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See section above about users upgrading from 2.16.1 or earlier,
2.14.4 or earlier.
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.3 OR EARLIER ***
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See section above about users upgrading from 2.16.0 or earlier.
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.2 OR EARLIER ***
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*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- Basic maintenance on contrib/bug_email.pl and
contrib/bugzilla_email_append.pl which also fixes a
possible security hole with a misuse of a system() call.
These files are not supported at this time, but as long
as we knew about the problem, we couldn't overlook it.
(bug 154008)
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- The fix for bug 130821 in 2.14.2 broke being able to sort
bug lists on more than one field. buglist.cgi now allows
you to sort on more than one field again.
(bug 152138)
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.1 OR EARLIER ***
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*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- queryhelp.cgi no longer shows confidential products to
people it shouldn't.
(bug 126801)
- It was possible for a user to bypass the IP check by
setting up a fake reverse DNS, if the Bugzilla web server
was configured to do reverse DNS lookups. Apache is not
configured as such by default. This is not a complete
exploit, as the user's login cookie would also need to
be divulged for this to be a problem.
(bug 129466)
- In some situations the data directory became world writeable.
(bug 134575)
- Any user with access to editusers.cgi could delete a user
regardless of whether 'allowuserdeletion' is on.
(bug 141557)
- Real names were not HTML filtered, causing possible cross
site scripting attacks.
(bug 146447, 147486)
- Mass change would set the groupset of every bug to be the
groupset of the first bug.
(bug 107718)
- Some browsers (eg NetPositive) interacted with Bugzilla
badly and could have various form problems, including
removing group restrictions on bugs.
(bug 148674)
- It was possible for random confidential information to be
divulged, if the shadow database was in use and became
corrupted.
(bug 92263)
- The bug list sort order is now stricter about the SQL it will accept,
ensuring you use correct column name syntax. Before this, there were
some syntax checks, so it is not known whether this problem was
exploitable.
(bug 130821)
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14 OR EARLIER ***
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The 2.14.1 release fixes several security issues that became
known to us after the Bugzilla 2.14 release.
*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- If LDAP Authentication was being used, Bugzilla would allow
you to log in as anyone if you left the password blank.
(bug 54901)
- It was possible to add comments or file a bug as someone else
by editing the HTML on the appropriate submission page before
submitting the form. User identity is checked now, and the
form values suggesting the user are now ignored.
(bug 108385, 108516)
- The Product popup menu on the show_bug form listed all
products, even if the user didn't have access to all of them.
It now only shows products the user has access to (and the
product the bug is in, if the user is viewing it because of
some other override).
(bug 102141)
- If a user had any blessgroupset privileges (the ability to
change only specific privileges for other users), it was
possible to change your own groupset (privileges) by
altering the page HTML before submitting on editusers.cgi.
(bug 108821)
- An untrusted variable was echoed back to user in the HTML
output if there was a login error while editing votes.
(bug 98146)
- buglist.cgi had an undocumented parameter that allowed you
to pass arbitrary SQL for the "WHERE" part of a query.
This has been disabled.
(bug 108812)
- It was possible for a user to send arbitrary SQL by inserting
single quotes in the "mybugslink" field in the user
preferences.
(bug 108822)
- buglist.cgi was not validating that the field names being
passed from the "boolean chart" query form were valid field
names, thus allowing arbitrary SQL to be inserted if you
edited the HTML by hand before submitting the form.
(bug 109679)
- long_list.cgi was not validating that the bug ID parameter
was actually a number, allowing arbitrary SQL to be inserted
if you edited the HTML by hand.
(bug 109690)
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.12 OR EARLIER ***
********************************************
*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- Multiple instances of unauthorized access to confidential
bugs have been fixed.
(bug 39524, 39526, 39527, 39531, 39533, 70189, 82781)
- Multiple instances of untrusted parameters not being
checked/escaped was fixed. These included definite security
holes.
(bug 38854, 38855, 38859, 39536, 87701, 95235)
- After logging in passwords no longer appear in the URL.
(bug 15980)
- Procedures to prevent unauthorized access to confidential
files are now simpler. In particular the shadow directory
no longer exists and the data/comments file no longer needs
to be directly accessible, so the entire data directory can
be blocked. However, no changes are required here if you
have a properly secured 2.12 installation as no new files
must be protected.
(bug 71552, 73191)
- If they do not already exist, checksetup.pl will attempt to
write Apache .htaccess files by default, to prevent
unauthorized access to confidential files. You can turn this
off in the localconfig file.
(bug 76154)
- Sanity check can now only be run by people in the 'editbugs'
group. Although it would be better to have a separate
group, this is not possible until the limitation on the
number of groups allowed has been removed.
(bug 54556)
- The password is no longer stored in plaintext form. It will
be eradicated next time you run checksetup.pl. A user must
now change their password via a password change request that
gets validated at their e-mail account, rather than have it
mailed to them.
(bug 74032)
- When you are using product groups and you move a bug between
products (single or mass change), the bug will no longer be
restricted to the old product's group (if it was) and will
be restricted to the new product's group.
(bug 66235)
- There are now options on a bug to choose whether the
reporter, and CCs can access a bug even if they aren't in
groups the bug it is restricted to.
(bug 39816)
- You can no longer mark a bug as a duplicate of a bug you
can't see, and if you mark a bug a duplicate of a bug
the reporter cannot see you will be given options as to
what to do regarding adding the reporter of the resolved
bug to the CC of the open bug.
(bug 96085)
*** IMPORTANT CHANGES ***
- Bugzilla 2.14 no longer supports old email tech. Upon
upgrading, all users will be moved over to new email tech.
This should speed up upgrading for installations with
a large number of bugs.
(bug 71552)
- There is new functionality for people to see why they are
receiving notification mails.
Previously, some people filtered old email tech
notifications depending on whether they were in the To or the
CC header, in order to get a limited way of determining why
they were receiving the notification for filtering purposes.
Existing installations will need to make changes to support
this feature. The receive reasons can be added to the
notifications as a header and/or in the body. To add these
you will need to modify your newchangedmail parameter on
editparams.cgi, either by resetting it or appropriately
modifying it. The header value is specified by
%reasonsheader% and the body by %reasonsbody%. For example,
the new default parameter is:
--------------------------------------------------
From: bugzilla-daemon
To: %to%
Subject: [Bug %bugid%] %neworchanged%%summary%
X-Bugzilla-Reason: %reasonsheader%
%urlbase%show_bug.cgi?id=%bugid%
%diffs%
%reasonsbody%
--------------------------------------------------
(bug 26194)
- Very long fields (especially multi-valued fields like keywords,
CCs, dependencies) on bug activity and notifications previously
could get truncated, resulting in useless notifications and data
loss on bug activity. Now the multi-valued fields only show
changes, and very big changes are split into multiple lines.
Where data loss has already occurred on bug activity, it is
indicated using question marks.
(bug 55161, 92266)
- Previously, when a product's voting preferences changed all
votes were removed from all the bugs in the product. Also,
when a bug was moved to another product, all of its votes
were removed. This no longer occurs.
Instead, if the action would leave one or more bugs with
greater than the maximum number of votes per person per bug,
the number of votes will be reduced to the maximum. The
person will still be notified of this as before.
If the action would leave a user with more votes in a product
than is allowed, the limit will be breached so as to not lose
votes. However the user will not be able to update their
votes except to fix this situation. No further action is taken
in this version to make sure that the user does this.
(bug 28882, 92593)
*** Other changes of note ***
- Groups can now be marked inactive, so you can't add a new
restriction on that group to a bug, while leaving bugs that
were previously restricted on that group alone.
(bug 75482)
- backdoor.cgi has been removed from the installation. It was
old code that was Netscape-specific and its name was scaring
people.
(bug 87983)
- You can now add or remove from CC on the bulk change page.
(bug 12819)
- New users created by administrators are now automatically
inserted into groups according to the group's regular
expression. Administrators must edit the user in a second
step to override these choices. Previously the
administrator specified these explicitly which could lead
to incorrect settings.
(bug 45164)
- The userregexp of system groups can now be edited without
resorting to direct database access.
(bug 65290)
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- The bug list page was sometimes bringing up a not logged in
footer when the user was logged in and the installation was
using a shadow database.
(bug 47914)
- You can now view the bug summary in your browser title for
a group-restricted bug if you have proper permissions.
(bug 71767)
- Quick search for search terms did not work in IE5.
This has been worked around.
(bug 77699)
- Quick search for search terms crashed NN4.76/4.77 for Unix.
This has been worked around.
(bug 83619)
- Queries on bugs you have commented on using the "added
comment" feature should be a lot faster and not time out
on large installations due to the addition of an index.
(bug 57350)
- You can now alter group settings on bulk change for groups
that aren't on for all bugs or off for all bugs.
(bug 84714)
- New bug notifications now include the CC and QA fields.
(bug 28458)
- Bugzilla is now more Windows friendly, although it is still
not an official platform.
(bug 88179, 29064)
- Passwords are now encrypted using Perl's encrypt function.
This makes Bugzilla more portable to more operating systems.
(bug 77473)
- Bugzilla didn't properly shut down when told to - some
queries could still be sent to the database.
(bug 95082)
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.10 OR EARLIER ***
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*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- Some security holes have been fixed where shell escape characters
could be passed to Bugzilla, allowing remote users to execute
system commands on the web server.
*** IMPORTANT CHANGES ***
- There is now a facility for users to choose the sort of
notifications they wish to receive. This facility will
probably be improved in future versions.
(bug 17464)
- "Changed" will no longer appear on the subject line of
change notification emails. Because of this, you should
change the subject line in your 'changedmail' and
'newchangedmail' params on editparams.cgi. The subject
line needs to be changed from
Subject: [Bug %bugid%] %neworchanged% - %summary%
to:
Subject: [Bug %bugid%] %neworchanged%%summary%
or whatever is appropriate for the subject you are using
on your system. Note the removal of the " - " in the
middle.
(bug 29820)
*** Other changes of note ***
- Bug titles now appear in the page title, and will hence
display in the user's browser's bookmarks and history.
(bug 22041)
- Edit groups functionality (editgroups.cgi).
(bug 25010)
- Support for moving bugs to other Bugzilla databases.
(bug 36133)
- Bugzilla now can generate a frequently reported bugs list
based on what duplicates you receive.
(bug 25693)
- When installing Bugzilla fresh, the administrator account is
now created in checksetup.pl.
(bug 17773)
- Stored queries now show their name above the bug list, which
helps the user when they have multiple bug lists in multiple
browser windows. It also appears in the page title, and will
hence display in the user's browser's bookmarks and history.
(bug 52228)
- All states and resolutions can now be collected for charting.
(bug 6682)
- A new search-engine-like "quick search" feature appears on
the front page to try and making searching easier.
(bug 69793)
- Querying on dependencies now works in the advanced query
section of the query page.
(bug 30823)
- When a bug is marked as a duplicate, the reporter of the
resolved bug is automatically added to the CC list of the
open bug.
(bug 28676)
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- Notification emails will now always be sent to QA contacts.
Previously they wouldn't if you were using new email tech.
(bug 30826)
- When marking a bug as a duplicate, the duplicate stamp marked
on the open bug will no longer be written too early (such as
on mid-air collisions).
(bug 7873)
- Various bug fixes were made to the initial assignee and QA
of a component. It is no longer possible to enter an
invalid address. They will also now properly update when
a user's email address is changed. Sanity check will now
check these.
(bug 66876)
- Administrators can no longer create an email accounts that do
not match the global email regular expression parameter.
Previously this could occur and would cause sanity check
errors.
(bug 32971)
- The resolution field can no longer become empty when the
bug is resolved. This occurred because of midair collisions.
(bug 49306)
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.8 OR EARLIER ***
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This version of Bugzilla cannot upgrade from version 2.8 (released
November 19, 1999). You will first have to upgrade to Bugzilla 3.6 and
then upgrade to the latest release.
If you are upgrading from a version earlier than 2.8, See the
PGRADING-pre-2.8 file in Bugzilla 3.0 for information
on upgrading from a version that is earlier than 2.8.